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AH020387 Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary
Accidently OR accidentally?
Are both spellings correct:
Accidently
AND
Accidentally
?
Accidently
AND
Accidentally
?
Top answer
No only accidentally.
- No only accidentally.
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Some people may pronounce the word as if spelled the first way, but we know it can't be spelled that way. Accident is a noun and cannot be made an adverb by adding -ly
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You can remember this one by remembering how to spell the word accidental.
There are quite a few words with -ally suffixes (like “incidentally”) which are not to be confused with words that have “-ly” suffixes (like “independently”).
Incidental is a word, but independental is not.
So, it is o
You can remember this one by remembering how to spell the word accidental.
There are quite a few words with -ally suffixes (like “incidentally”) which are not to be confused with words that have “-ly” suffixes (like “independently”).
Incidental is a word, but independental is not.
So, it is o
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